Victor Higgins (1884 - 1949) American

Victor Higgins (1884 - 1949) American
Oil on Canvas
Measure 15 1/2"in H x 11 1/2"in W and 19 1/2"in H x 15 3/4"in W with frame

Known for: Indian genre, landscape and portrait painting
Name variants: William Victor Higgins
Biography: Born Shelbyville, IN, June 28, 1884 and died in Taos, NM, Aug. 23, 1949, Victor Higgins, born William Victor Higgins, was a painter who specialized in Native Americans and New Mexican genre. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. Higgins went to Europe in 1910, studying first at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris under Renard and 104 Lucien Simon and then in Munich with Hans von Hyeck. It was in Munich he met fellow painter Walter Ufer. He returned to Chicago in 1914 then went to Taos to paint a landscape on commission. He taught at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, 1917-23, but spent his summer in Taos in 1917. He created murals for the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, MO in 1919. He was ommissioned to do a mural in the Herington Post Office, 1923. Many of his papers are now available in the Museum of Fine Arts Library in Santa Fe.
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